A Drink Before The War
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Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can.
Questa serie segue le vite di investigatori privati con sede a Boston, i cui casi li portano negli angoli oscuri della natura umana e della società. Ogni episodio offre trame avvincenti in cui la giustizia si scontra con demoni personali e dilemmi morali. I protagonisti affrontano situazioni pericolose che mettono alla prova i loro limiti e la loro relazione. È una lettura avvincente per gli amanti delle storie poliziesche con una profonda introspezione psicologica.






Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can.
A cadre of powerful Massachusetts politicians offers Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro big money for a small job: find the missing cleaning woman who allegedly stole confidential Statehouse documents. But there's much more to this crime than anyone realizes. What the woman was really after was justice--and out on the Boston streets, the truth can turn stark and ugly.
Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro try to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist in the midst of an ever-growing body count and a list of clues that point impossibly to a serial killer who has been in prison for twenty years.
I detective privati Pat Kenzie e Angie Gennaro vengono rapiti e narcotizzati da due bizzarri personaggi, e condotti alla presenza di Trevor Stone, magnate multimiliardario. Stone vuole il meglio sulla piazza, e non ammette scuse, perché il lavoro che deve commissionare ai due investigatori gli sta molto, troppo a cuore. Deve ritrovare la figlia, la bellissima e inafferrabile Desiree, fuggita in preda alla disperazione dopo la morte della madre. Sono ormai tre settimane che non si hanno notizie di lei, e nemmeno di Jay Becker, il detective che per primo le era stato sguinzagliato dietro. Pat e Angie iniziano le ricerche ma, con il procedere delle indagini, una realtà diversa, molto più complicata e oscura, si fa strada. e le domande si accavallano.
The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don't want the case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything—their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives—to find a little girl-lost.
“Powerful and raw, harrowing, and unsentimental.” —Washington Post Book World “Chilling, completely credible….[An] absolutely gripping story.” —Chicago Tribune “Mr. Lehane delivers big time.” —Wall Street Journal In Gone, Baby, Gone, the master of the new noir, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island), vividly captures the complex beauty and darkness of working-class Boston. A gripping, deeply evocative thriller about the devastating secrets surrounding a little girl lost, featuring the popular detective team of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, Gone, Baby, Gone was the basis for the critically acclaimed motion picture directed by Ben Affleck and starring Casey Affleck, Ed Harris, and Morgan Freeman.
Karen è una ragazza acqua e sapone, senza troppi problemi. Eppure si è tolta la vita. Cosa può esserle successo di tanto terribile? Per Pat Kenzie la domanda si trasforma in un’ossessione che lo attira in un gioco mortale con un personaggio il cui piacere più grande sembra essere quello di distruggere la vita delle sue vittime pezzo per pezzo.
Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in Darkness, Take My Hand , a terrifying tale of redemption. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen the darkness that lives in the hearts of the unfortunate. But an evil for which even they are unprepared is about to strike, as secrets that have long lain dormant erupt, setting off a chain of violent murders that will stain everything – including the truth. With razor-sharp dialogue and penetrating prose, Darkness, Take My Hand is another superior crime novel from the author of Mystic River; Gone, Baby, Gone; and Shutter Island .